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**The house is in Darien, Connecticut. It is located on a wooded hillside sloping toward the water. The house is inserted into the natural landscape but is designed as an artificial object. Located on a hillside, the structure is a white prism that emerges between the trees and creating a strong visual contrast. This house was built made of wood. The chimney is brick pillars and metallic interiors.Based on an operation-style rationalism made popular by Le Corbusier, in which category some critics have characterized the mannerist-principal of the cubic house, worked at carving the house out of the basic cubic base with operations of addition and subtraction.** **The reverse side is treated as a closed facade, with small openings, while the front is an open facade with large glass panels offering extensive views over the horizon.The bedrooms and private areas are located in the closed rectangular prism, while the service, social, and entrance areas are located on the open ground floor.**  **The rear facade facing uphill is wrapped in opaque walls with only small, geometrically arranged openings for windows to protect the occupants' privacy. The social areas are all located toward the front of the house, where the large glass panes open laterally, facing down the hillside. In some spaces, the height of the rooms in the front area can reach two or three stories, and the extreme height contributes to the dramatization of the interior space.** **The curved staircase that descends from the first floor to the ground, the small reservoir cubic annex and the access ramp to the house, being additions to the central cubic volume, serve as anchor points for the house.** (I Designed Smith House in 2019).
 * SMITH HOUSE **

**THE KAUFMANN HOUSE **

 ( I Designed The Kaufmann House in 2020).

**The Kaufmann House is in Palm Springs, California. The design of the house is quite simplistic; at the center of the house is the living room and the dining room that is the heart of the house and the family activity. The rest of the house branches out like a pinwheel in each of the cardinal directions. From the center of the house each wing that branches out has its own specific function; however, the most important aspects of the house are oriented east/west while the supporting features are oriented north/south.The north and south wings are the most public parts of the house that connect to the central living area. The south wing consists of a covered walkway that leads from the center of the house to the carport. The north wing is the guest’s quarters that are publicly accessible, but retain their private needs as they are separated from the rest of the house. The west wing of the house is the service wing, which is fairly secluded from the rest of the open plan design. The east wing is the most privatized aspect of the house as it is the Kaufmann’s master suite.The house’s swimming pool creates a compositional balance of the overall design of the house. The house alone is unbalanced and heavy as the wings are not equally proportioned, but with the addition and placement of the swimming pool there is a cohesive balance and harmony throughout the design.** **The low, horizontal planes that make up the pinwheel design bring the house closer to the landscape making it appear as if it is hovering above the ground. The floating effect is emphasized through a series of sliding glass doors that open up to cover walkways or patios. The flow from interior to exterior space is not simply a spatial condition rather it is an issue of materiality that creates the sinuous experience. The glass and steel make the house light, airy, and open, but it is the use of stone that solidifies the houses contextual relationship. The light colored, dry set stone brings out the qualities of the glass and steel, but it also blends into the earthy tones of the surrounding landscape of the stone, mountains, and trees.**     <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: justify;">